We are pleased to announce that on Monday, December 4 at 16:30 (CET), Alyssa Ney (UC
Davis) will give the talk The Argument from Locality for Many Worlds Quantum Mechanics as
part of the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia Fall 2023 organised by the Institute of Philosophy
(ISFI) at USI.
This hybrid talk will take place in the Multiuso room, Theology Building, USI West Campus
and online via Zoom. If you are interested in joining it online, please write to
events.isfi(a)usi.ch
For more information:
https://www.usi.ch/en/feeds/25721
Here is the abstract of the talk:
One motivation for preferring the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics over
realist rivals, such as collapse and hidden variables theories, is that the interpretation
is able to preserve locality (in the sense of no action at a distance) in a way these
other theories cannot. The primary goal of this paper is to make this argument for the
many worlds interpretation precise, in a way that does not rely on controversial
assumptions about the metaphysics of many worlds.